Monday, February 9, 2015

SAN DIEGO – A correctional officer was treated for injuries
suffered from an attack by an inmate at Richard J. Donovan Correctional
Facility (RJDCF).

At 8:05 p.m. Feb. 8, as inmates in a Facility D housing unit
were receiving medication, inmate Jason Harmon, 37, rushed at a correctional
officer with a weapon in his right hand. He struck the officer in his chest
with the pointed end of the weapon, making contact with the officer’s
stab-resistant vest. Harmon, resisting the officer’s efforts to subdue him,
continued his attack. Additional officers rushed to assist, and were able to
quell the attack and recover the inmate-manufactured weapon.

Harmon was received by CDCR on Feb. 1, 2011, from Riverside
County to serve a life sentence for
attempted first-degree murder of a peace officer, assault with a deadly
weapon on a peace officer, carjacking, buying or receiving stolen equipment and
evading a peace officer while driving recklessly.

The officer, 27, was transported to a local hospital, where
he was treated for minor bruises and scrapes. Inmate Harmon was transported to
a local hospital for treatment of a head laceration and possible hand fracture,
and has been re-housed in the Administrative Segregation Unit. Inmate movement
on D Facility has been limited pending an investigation into this incident.

The primary mission of the Richard J. Donovan Correctional
Facility is to provide housing and supervision for minimum- to high-security
inmates. Designed as a training and work-oriented facility, RJDCF provides
vocational, academic and industrial programs.

For more information contact Robert Brown at (619) 661-6500, ext. 8654.